Tar: Memorial Park, Meditation and Nature

• The Peace Stupa in the Alexander Kőrösi Csoma Memorial Park was built in 1992 in memory of Alexander Kőrösi Csoma. The Dalai Lama consecrated it.
• The memorial pavilion in the park presents the life and work of Alexander Kőrösi Csoma.
• The meditation centre regularly holds meditations, rituals, teachings, courses and meditation retreats; anyone can take part.
• The Felső-Csevice spring and its surroundings are a nature reserve. The viewpoint is 200 metres along the yellow-marked circular trail beside the information board at the spring.

The Peace Stupa and memorial pavilion in the Alexander Kőrösi Csoma Memorial Park represent two distinct approaches. The stupa was built in 1992 in memory of Alexander Kőrösi Csoma and consecrated by the Dalai Lama. The pavilion presents Csoma’s life and work, adding a themed exhibition to the memorial site.

This brings remembrance and exhibition together in the same park. If you are interested in spiritual or cultural subjects, you can explore these highlights separately: the Peace Stupa is the monument, while the pavilion is devoted to Csoma’s life and work.

The Felső-Csevice spring and its surroundings are a nature reserve. From the yellow-marked circular trail beside the information board at the spring, you can reach a viewpoint after 200 metres. Here, protection of the spring and the view are the distinct features.

At the ruins of Tari Lőrinc’s medieval manor house, a section of wall remains visible, flanked by two openings from ruined windows. The natural site combines a protected setting with a viewpoint; at the ruins, a specific architectural detail takes centre stage. Tari Lőrinc was born in Tar around 1370.

The meditation centre in Tar regularly holds meditations, rituals, teachings, courses and meditation retreats. Anyone can take part in the community’s programmes and activities. This distinguishes it from the memorial sites in the park: here, the focus is on shared activities.

The Tara Tea House is also located in the Alexander Kőrösi Csoma Memorial Park. Check current opening details before you visit.

The wider destination of Neuburg offers a range of themes beyond Tar. The old village of Hollókő is a Palóc settlement and a deliberately preserved, living example of rural life before the 20th-century agrarian revolution.

The Boszorkány-kő geological trail illustrates basalt volcanism from 2.4 to 5.2 million years ago. The rock formations described there include curved lava slabs and basalt columns formed by weathering. Another cultural highlight within the wider destination of Neuburg is Mátraverebély-Szentkút: in 2006, during the Assumption pilgrimage, Cardinal Primate Erdő Péter solemnly declared it a national shrine. These examples broaden the perspective on Neuburg; the memorial, meditation and nature themes described here are what characterise Tar.

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Where is the Peace Stupa?

It stands in the Alexander Kőrösi Csoma Memorial Park in Tar and was built in memory of Alexander Kőrösi Csoma.

What does the memorial pavilion show?

The pavilion in the memorial park presents the life and work of Alexander Kőrösi Csoma.

How does the trail lead to the viewpoint at the Felső-Csevice spring?

From the yellow-marked circular trail beside the information board at the spring, you can reach the viewpoint after 200 metres.

Who can take part in activities at the meditation centre?

Anyone can take part in the community’s programmes and activities.

To the overview of the wider destination: Pásztói.